Author: Dave Brockington

Born in San Jose, grew up in Seattle, received a Ph.D. in poli sci from University of Washington, worked for three years at Universiteit Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, and have worked at the University of Plymouth for eight academic years now in Plymouth, United Kingdom.

Born in San Jose, grew up in Seattle, received a Ph.D. in poli sci from University of Washington, worked for three years at Universiteit Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, and have worked at the University of Plymouth for eight academic years now in Plymouth, United Kingdom.

The polls are ludicrously everywhere and anywhere in this election. This is due in part to what I discussed a few days ago: the polling houses have not settled on a consensus fix for 2015. Again, it all seems to hang on which likely voter model you favour, and this post has an excellent overview of the […]

You’re Theresa May, vaguely accidental Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. You’ve inherited a flimsy majority in the House of Commons, currently at just 17 seats. You’re about to enter into a series of negotiations with the European Union, which will define the UK’s economic framework for at least a generation. The […]

So, in my inimitable way, I went out last night and got happily drunk. Said drunk excursion commenced with chatting with several of my MA students. It turns out that one is a member of the Labour Party, and voted for Jeremy Corbyn last summer. He’s not now. Nor am I, even though I voted for him […]

Javier Sajuria posted this over at the UCL Constitution Unit last week while I was busy finding new and efficient ways to haemorrhage cash in Geneva. It’s worth a read, and applies some political sciency-type stuff to the situation that the Labour Party finds itself in. Rules matter, they aren’t neutral (implied), and the Labour Party […]